Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

George Barbier: J.D. Underwood

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Quotes 

• J.D. Underwood : You have to admit its an idea.

  Van : Why, it's flabbergasting!

  J.D. Underwood : Well, it takes an old flabbergaster like me, to make you smart youngsters know that you haven't got all the ideas in the world.

• J.D. Underwood : Van, I've got a brand new kind of a steam cabinet some fellow in Belgium invented and I tell you I'm like a kid with a toy.

  Van : You know, I haven't had a good steam bath in a year.

• J.D. Underwood : Van, enough beatin' about the bush. What are you tryin' to put over on me?

  Van : J.D., did anybody ever put anything over on you in your entire life?

  J.D. Underwood : Well, you're not far wrong.

• J.D. Underwood : Well, you're a clever young gamecock, Van, but I'm not so old a bird that I'm afraid to stay in the pit with you.